A French family and House Bill 2

Jason A. Baguia 01/13/2017

It is Fiesta Señor weekend, when Catholics in the Philippines celebrate the truth that the Savior of the world blessed infancy in his own childhood. In the run-up to the feast day that falls each year on…

Holy innocents

Jason A. Baguia 01/06/2017

Alady had tucked two images of the Holy Child Jesus as king into a stroller. That was not what first captured my attention under one of the bleachers in the churchyard. Rather, I was drawn to the…

Reminiscing Aarhus

Jason A. Baguia 12/31/2016

“Aarhus and the 18 other municipalities in Central Denmark Region celebrate our year as European Capital of Culture in 2017.” —www.aarhus2017.dk FROM 2014 to 2015, I lived in Aarhus, a small harbor city that is Denmark’s second…

Fount of novelty

Jason A. Baguia 12/30/2016

This ship has circled the sun once more. Tomorrow shall be the first of another 365 days. But for today, the last of the year, priests across the globe turn again to the evangelist John, to his…

Crimson Christmas

Jason A. Baguia 12/23/2016

Christ’s birthday comes, bloodshed in your houses and streets notwithstanding. Do not be surprised. You saw Catherine Hardwicke’s “The Nativity Story” 10 years ago and found yourself educated by this scene. About three months before her baby…

Blood cries for Guadalupe

Jason A. Baguia 12/16/2016

The body count in the Philippine government’s war on drugs rose to 5,927 on Monday, the twelfth of December, while Catholics across the archipelago celebrated the fiesta of the Blessed Virgin Mary, “Our Lady of Guadalupe.” This…

Grim reaper country

Jason A. Baguia 12/09/2016

The Catechism of the Catholic Church and the 1987 Philippine Constitution are quite compatible in terms of their treatment of the question of capital punishment. The Charter, promulgated after Filipinos overthrew the dictator Ferdinand Marcos, held in…

Help us, Santa Claus

Jason A. Baguia 12/02/2016

Brimming with joy, the tax man told his guest, the God-man, that he would return to his victims four times the amount he had stolen from them. The visitor then proclaimed that salvation had come to the…

Advent twilight

Jason A. Baguia 11/25/2016

The year turns tonight when the sun goes down in the west. This is a way of reckoning time that we inherited from the people of Israel. The new day begins with the entrance of the night.…

Black Friday 2016

Jason A. Baguia 11/18/2016

Despite public opposition, Ferdinand Marcos, the late president of the Philippines, has been buried at a heroes’ cemetery in the capital in a ceremony shrouded in secrecy” —Al Jazeera English. “This is but the latest deception in…

Nights in our days

Jason A. Baguia 11/11/2016

On Katipunan Street in Barangay Tisa, Cebu City, close to where the street intersects with F. Llamas and Cabarrubias streets, there is a little marker to a lost missionary. He is Father Rosaleo Romano, a member of…

To depend or not: Not really the question

Jason A. Baguia 10/28/2016

The Chief Executive has recently stated that he intends to pursue an independent foreign policy on behalf of all Filipinos and that he wants all foreign troops out of the country within the next two years. He…

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